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Posts Tagged ‘Thames’
Climate Change, Nature, Wildlife & Flora, Jun 8th, 2010,
Only in Britain? In what may be one of the biggest wildlife relocation projects ever, some 300 water voles; 350 great crested newts and 30,000 smooth newts, along with thousands of snakes and lizards, are being moved to facilitate the construction of a deep-sea container port on the Thames River on the eastern outskirts of London. The port project, named London Gateway, is the first of its kind in the UK and is owned by the company DP World. In total, over 150,000 wild animals are to be relocated for the river port project. From an article in the Independent:…
Tags: Britain, desalinization, DP, Gateway, london, newts, plant, port, relocation, river, Thames, UK, voles, water, wildlife
Climate Change, Jun 2nd, 2010,
Climate change, by its very definition, suggests that geographical areas become hotter or drier or wetter as the case may be. Some places even become colder, while others experience severe fluctuations in weather, such as an increase in storms or droughts. Anthropogenic climate change – climate change caused by human activity – is predicted to affect weather conditions throughout the globe, the most vulnerable being hot countries that already experience extreme weather. According to the World Bank’s list of the 12 countries most at risk from climate change, Bangladesh is most susceptible to floods, Malawi to droughts and the Philippines…
Tags: barrier, Britain, climate, Climate change, drought, flood, flooding, floods, london, Met Office, Thames, UK
